‘Transparency Seekers’ hail ruling

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Express news service Posted: Sep 04, 2008 at 0122 hrs IST

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New Delhi: : The Delhi High Court’s direction to UPSC to reveal the cut-off marks in the preliminary examinations to students has been welcomed by the students who started the campaign 25 months back.

“Transparency Seekers”, as they call the group, was setup by students who felt “cheated” after the prelims and interview results. Formed in Delhi in 2005, the group today has 25 members.

Sameer Panda, one of the group members, said, “We filed the application under the Right to Information Act in August 2005 and the result of the fight will hopefully benefit many students who plan to appear for the exams.”

Sundarsana Nachiappan, Congress’s Rajya Sabha MP from Tamil Nadu and head of a 31-member Parliamentary Committee looking at the reforms in the UPSC examinations, agrees. “It is surely going to benefit the students and help improve the management of the UPSC,” he said.

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Nachiappan has been working with the committee and meeting students and experts across universities in the country to evaluate the plans. “The concerns are right since the present system has been used for much too long now. The examinations should be conduct on the lines of university examinations and the GMAT.”

The Y K Alagh Committee, set up by the UPSC to look into the state of civil services, had made similar recommendations to the commission in 2001.

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